A five-day intensive international training themed "Reporting business news in Digital Age"  was organized on June 15-19th at our agency’s conference hall. The action was initiated MONTSAME Agency and the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF).
The training was conducted by Richard Meares and Alan Wheatley, instructors at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was attended by ten journalists from the MONTSAME, Mongolian daily newspapers, TV channels and from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
Mr Meares has been working at the Foundation as an instructor for the last five years after his 25-year work as a correspondent for the BBC and Reuters in Germany, South Africa, Ireland and former Yugoslavia. Mr Wheatley is an economics and finance correspondent who has worked for Reuters 33 years. After his less than two years' retirement he has been working as an instructor.
Upon the completion of the training the participants were granted the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s certificates. 
A cooperation memorandum was established between the MONTSAME agency and the Reuters on July 3 of 1989.